{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-listed-buildings-and-conservation-areas-scotland-act-1997/section-5A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-listed-buildings-and-conservation-areas-scotland-act-1997/section-5A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1997/9",
  "legislation_title": "Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-listed-buildings-and-conservation-areas-scotland-act-1997",
  "path": "section/5A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5A",
  "heading": "Certificate that building not intended to be listed",
  "text": "(1) Historic Environment Scotland may, on the application of any person, issue a certificate stating that it does not intend to include a building in a list compiled or approved under section 1.\n(2) Where Historic Environment Scotland issues a certificate under subsection (1) in respect of a building—\n(a) it may not for a period of 5 years from the date of issue exercise in relation to the building any of the powers conferred on it by section 1, and\n(b) a planning authority may not for that period—\n(i) serve a building preservation notice in relation to the building, or\n(ii) affix such a notice under section 4(1).\n(3) A person submitting an application to Historic Environment Scotland under subsection (1) must, at the same time as submitting it, give notice of the application to the planning authority within whose district the building is situated.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 5A inserted (1.12.2011) by Historic Environment (Amendment) (Scotland) Act 2011 (asp 3), ss. 18(1), 33(2); S.S.I. 2011/372, art. 2, sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 5A(1) substituted (27.2.2015 for specified purposes, 1.10.2015 in so far as not already in force) by Historic Environment Scotland Act 2014 (asp 19), s. 31(2), sch. 3 para. 6(a)(i) (with ss. 29, 30); S.S.I. 2015/31, art. 2, sch.; S.S.I. 2015/196, art. 2, sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 5A(1) substituted (27.2.2015 for specified purposes, 1.10.2015 in so far as not already in force) by Historic Environment Scotland Act 2014 (asp 19), s. 31(2), sch. 3 para. 6(a)(ii) (with ss. 29, 30); S.S.I. 2015/31, art. 2, sch.; S.S.I. 2015/196, art. 2, sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 5A(2) substituted (27.2.2015 for specified purposes, 1.10.2015 in so far as not already in force) by Historic Environment Scotland Act 2014 (asp 19), s. 31(2), sch. 3 para. 6(b)(i) (with ss. 29, 30); S.S.I. 2015/31, art. 2, sch.; S.S.I. 2015/196, art. 2, sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Word in s. 5A(2)(a) substituted (27.2.2015 for specified purposes, 1.10.2015 in so far as not already in force) by Historic Environment Scotland Act 2014 (asp 19), s. 31(2), sch. 3 para. 6(b)(ii) (with ss. 29, 30); S.S.I. 2015/31, art. 2, sch.; S.S.I. 2015/196, art. 2, sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 5A(3) substituted (27.2.2015 for specified purposes, 1.10.2015 in so far as not already in force) by Historic Environment Scotland Act 2014 (asp 19), s. 31(2), sch. 3 para. 6(c) (with ss. 29, 30); S.S.I. 2015/31, art. 2, sch.; S.S.I. 2015/196, art. 2, sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 5A(1) savings for effects of 2014 asp 19, Sch. 3 para. 6(a) (1.10.2015) by The Historic Environment Scotland Act 2014 (Saving, Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Order 2015 (S.S.I. 2015/239), arts. 1(1), 15"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1997/9/section/5A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:28:04.824686+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}